Death's Minions
They sit in shadowy fields
on waving grey grasses
with oily blades
rustlings of unspeakable beneath
the knotted dead reeds
they look towards the hamlet
on sloppy hillocks afar
listening for wails of grief
when death harvest
the drooping sheaves
then they come with scissors
silver reflecting the moon
to cut the cord of spirits
from empty human coils
for souls to God they leave
these spirits they harvest
spirits of good and evil
to work their way around
in dark shadowy realms
for dreamscapes and nightmares
for moments in the night
for changes of scenes
for hopes through omens
and fear through phantasms
with these they to humans bestow.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 15th May 2014 9:56pm
Dedicated to my friend
My friend
The sky is blue today
It kisses the sea beyond
The ocean’s azure glow
Lighted up by the sun
The waves incessant
pounding
On the sandy shore
Crashing and swishing
And back again
I feel gentle zephyr
Its caressing blow
Upon this sweaty brow
And I know
Everything’s going to be alright
My friend
You feel so down today
The world is just so grey
Music discordant play
Plays strange sad melodies
You feel the tug of sadness
Plucking your sleeves
You want to cry
And mourn against the world
You wish you can fly,
free yourself from life’s shackles
But love is your anchor
Hope is your everlasting hold
that the many tomorrows
will be better than today
My friend
I stand with you today
Holding your hands
I just want to say
My confidante, mate, my friend
You have a place within
this little heart of mine
Your sadness
Is mine to witness
Though the burden’s unshared;
Your disillusionment
I do understand;
I have nothing to offer
But my heartfelt prayer
That your tomorrows will be alright.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 3rd February 2012 6:26am
Dedicated to you
A silent hello
A raucous laugh
A soft heart
A brave face
You are there
When you need to
And when you are needed
Sometimes you brush everything away
As if they do not matter anyway
When it does matter though
You just stand your
Ground and
Fight.
I am
Proud
To know
You!
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 26th February 2012 1:48am
Deeper than LongerFor by Whom
like a lighted candle
haloed by muses
within this portal
we meet, almost lovers
Oceans Apart
hear the melodies plucked
by nimble fingers on aged guitar
read the dove-tailed words
written, like heartbeats
Deeper Than
a plunging vine to deeper than
an abyss to never and forever
train that chugs to ever more
Dup love for all that's here
*originally written for The Ballad of DuP*
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 12th May 2014 8:48pm
Desire
To walk the meadow
Where peace does reign
To sit among flowers
And fairy rings
To lay and dream
Of queens and kings
And magical kingdom
Where butterflies sing
To dress in diamond sequinned gowns
And dance the night on sparkling ice
To be folded in my beloved’s arms
To laugh to love to kiss
Desires are dreams
That may not come
But sweetness all the same
Just dreamy fantasies
They may not be secrets
Deep or shallow
They are just lurking wishes
fantasy, my deepest desires.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 5th May 2012 9:26am
Desperate Living
Fear of missing out
made him sit up all night
to watch the race on TV
and football matches
even the girly advertisements
he scours the obituary pages
smiling grimly he's not there
yet, maybe he will go for a drive
to look at the paint
of his neighbours' houses
he thinks about sitting in the pub
drinking beer and reminiscing
about all the girls he scored
while married to his children's mom
now he's desperately alone
he watches the boats coming in
one by one, with their catch
he sees the big the medium the small
fishes all in the box
he wants to know how they do it
He knows time is running out
he won't live to a hundred and two
If he does what will he do
gum a chicken and pee a tree?
so he's looking at all he can see
only the opulent have bucket lists
he says to me, I'm not a passenger
silently I turn away, does it matter
money will not buy you a minute more
if the grim man visits you today.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 29th June 2014 8:46am
Despite it all
Despite my laugh
My rambunctious roar
Of mirth and happy gurgles
Despite my dancing in
Purple haze of joy
The deeper me
Is just grey
Despite the gaiety of it all
The dancing at the ball
The flirtatious gait
The party fox
Despite it all
I am just
Grace
So judge me not for this
My ever happy laughter
Think me not a clown
Hoping for the applause
from a crowd of revellers
I too have many thoughts
Of me, you and all of them
Despite it all
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 22nd May 2013 6:56pm
- Last modified 22nd May 2013 7:34pm
Destiny's Joke
scroll of achievement
on her hands, as a lighted
baton to hold up high
as she runs through life
earned through sweat and tears
at last the illuminating paper
framed and mounted
like a beacon on her wall
smiling into the light
laughing with delight
tomorrow I will enchant
with the might of my pen
I will change the world
from the darkness to brightness
smiling through averse conditions
laughing at her adversary
writing furiously against wrongs
months are turning to years
she fights on running on battlegrounds
shooting like crazy at shattered bodies
writing to her papers, angrily
right the wrongs write the wrongs!
the drones droned on at night
the politicians bury her colleagues
they are shot while having a cigarette
she cries in agony at typhoons anger
deep lines on her face
sagging cheeks know no smile
eyes stark with fear and anger
stare into the darkening world
Light of the Moon
reflecting on crashing waves
like silvery water
on bowls of darkness
standing alone
looking into the horizon
she knew the coldness
was her destiny
she writes on furiously
getting the screaming words
out of her head
she is not atlas...
No not at all
but she writes on.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 9th July 2014 10:19am
- Last modified 9th July 2014 10:20pm
Destroyed Slowly
There is always an obliteration of what once was
it’s a paradox, a conundrum about initiated efforts
that came to naught, just a gape mouth
stance, wondering what it was all about
It started so early, even at the beginning
he knew it but hid it in the recess of his mind
the labour of patching up leaking roofs
could have been much easier
than stopping the mouth that rants
fouling up all efforts that taxed much
soothing words and compromises
professing eternal devotion, adoration
how was it that the gleam of sullenness
the inaudible impatience were missed
before the day the rings were placed lovingly
on fingers and thus bonded two souls
he wanted to always drown in her loving eyes
willing her to swim in the peace of his thoughts
he didn’t see the eyes that scoured
the hallway for familiar faces
of lovers, casual or otherwise
he drank in her sparkling eyes and smiling lips
lending her strength, taking her up in his arms
he was there and not really anywhere
standing on a pool of light
that he hoped would illuminate her
in her circling to take flight
she wished to fly away and be lost
the implosion of hued emotions
was nigh complete, he held her tight,
in his mind and in his heart…
frightened and vaguely desperate
resenting him for impeding her flight
the decaying matter on his boot
was rapidly spreading, it wouldn't stop
he wondered what it was all about
but he knew he was being destroyed
…slowly.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 17th March 2014 00:16am
- Last modified 17th March 2014 00:50am
Did I hear you Right
Distraught he fell on his knee
They were coming for him
irate parents know no mercy
the law says he was ROAC
and he had USWAM
they sounded like venereal diseases
so he cried on her lap
sobbing his broken heart out
he knew he will rot in jail
as a pedophile
forgive me my sweet girl
give me your hands, don’t cry
just be strong while I tell
you a tale of bittersweet goodbye
I love you very much baby
I love having you in my arms
the warmth of your curvaceous body
light up the core of my soul
you are my everything and more
I thought you were twenty
you told me so, I believed you
O my darling until I saw
your birth certificate
its says you are fifteen
Did I lie to myself
blinded by your body so voluptuous
the puffy pink lips kissing me
so wisely everywhere
giving so much pleasure, receiving more
Somehow I should have known
the innocence of your smile
the suppleness of your figure
you can’t be a child, that makes me cry
what have I done, what did I do
My fault was just loving you
but I didn't know….
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 29th June 2014 8:48pm
Did you say Today
waiting like a shadow
under a fading moon
growing paler
as the night gets serious
at the empty table
smidgens of leftover
on red napkins
seems to mock
have you eaten today
what how did you...when?
walking away
three hours later
was it today
did you say the day
to be today
you never came.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 7th March 2015 8:27am
Did you Say That
ambiguous really,sadly stated
pushing and pulling, negotiating
paused for thoughts
many head scratches
to do or not to do
words are easy to write down
conjuring up beauty sparkles
strings of rare pearls
diamonds like stars on velvet
diadems on the sky
mud over green grass
usually doesn't make pretty
or burnt cinders on pits
better for blooms
although habouring a bee or two
did you say that
brass on windows reflects too
not as clear as mirrors
but they don't break
too easily, I'd say.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 14th June 2014 10:28am
Digging deeper for Me
long stares into the fading sun
within my mind
desperately shifting among dead leaves
on vague path in memories
buried beneath layers of pain
I look for me, the real me
I remember many yellow sunrises
and glorious hues of sunsets
were they real
I am lost in this darkness
the flame of my memory fading
living an existence of repeated breath
like a fixed crystal pirouetting ballerina
I am lost...a maze repeated
I am digging deeper to find me
lost somewhere
within life's charade
but I feel like I am drowning
I am lost.
*this poem was entered in a competition here. thank you for reading*
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 4th September 2015 10:43am
Dirge of a broken heart
Love is to give and share
to hold to keep to declare
but as the golden circle
that binds do break
dew drops from aching hearts
fall unheeded on deeply furrowed souls
to ache to hurt in exquisite pain
Knowing not how to love again
Holding on to strangers' hands
willing to hope and feel again
but nary a sound the heart do gain
how far or further still the willingness
to say to talk to speak to tell
the feelings once felt
When one love's hand touches
though it end in betrayal
Meander the crack in hearts do break
cracking like frozen ice in antartica
Following the falling leaves of autumn
dead and helpless in its descent
Watching him with his new love
a nail in love's coffin hammered
while within dying heart screams
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 8th January 2012 6:49am
Do you even Remember
Do you even remember
The trees falling over from
Your mighty axe
As we clean the land
For our homestead
Do you even remember
The glow of the fire
On our faces
As we spoke of our dreams
To live off the land
Do you even remember
Our pledge to toil
On fertile loamy ground
To tie the sheaves
To jump the broom
Do you even remember me
Who wiped your brow
Who slaked your thirst
Who nursed your hurts
Who gave you comfort
I am still here
A shadow of your past
As you are shadows in mine
Time will not rewind
But memories remind
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 23rd May 2013 11:04am
- Last modified 24th May 2013 9:45am
Dog Day Heaven
Days of uncertainties, and hunger pains
a thin line of sharp ache along his stomach
scrapped to its bones from within and without
big longing eyes couldn’t fill the emptiness
on well-worn path trodden every day
he travels on in hope of some scraps
a kind look, a gesture of kindness
he wants so much to feel their affections
he looks at himself on reflecting tin cans
he was handsome once, he thinks
the cans smell lovelier than they look
if only there is something inside, alas no
he sits there at the pavement
looking up at the people passing by
spare a dime, whispers the beggar near him
he looks away, he will work for food
a boy, a few years to being a man
stoops to look at him,
a mangy dog with tufts for fur
says hey boy, what’s your name boy…
he smiles into the darkest brown eyes
and slowly feels the warmth
his body fuses into one long happiness
dance, and his bare tail wags
he is not looking back, just memories
that travels like a shiver through his body
now covered in long golden sheen
fully back in his person, a Labrador
he snuffs in his sleep
his legs pumping, chasing rabbits
the boy nearly a man now
smiling, scratches him on his head.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 17th March 2014 8:40am
Don’t love me
A thread of spectral
Wish floats upwards
Towards skies of hopes
In wants hands grope
In need of arms
Embracing and giving
I watch in pain
For you love in vain
I can’t love you
A prayer in whispers
To the Gods above
To be loved back
I would if I could
Love you too
With all my strength
Give you my everything
But I can’t love you
I am too broken inside
Sobs and tears
Will break my heart
I will cry with you
I will hold you tight
Rock you in the night
Tell you everything’s alright
Wipe the tears away
Loving you, No I can’t
Cos I will just hurt you
Just love me tonight
let me go tomorrow
Leave the cigarettes
Burning on the tray
Savour the wine
Touch my face
Long Kiss goodbye
Close your eyes
As I walk away.
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 22nd April 2013 11:24am
Don’t pardon the Pun
Truth is hard to tell I know
Even though it’s there to see
He got hot under the collar
When I told him
his boogers bungeed off his nose
And he began seeing red
when he overheard me said
he was all froth and no substance
what can I say, he could not go the distance
Truth is indeed hard to tell
He asked me for a second date
I went again, resigned to my fate
He was all fingers but no thumps
When I said I needed something perky
He looked at my breasts
Spilled the coffee right on me
He stumbled up to wipe me off
It can be said I felt dis-tainted
He tried to kiss me full on the lips
Slipped and fell, I gave him the slip
The last date was full of fun
We laughed together fit to be tied
Fell all over ourselves in the car
Tried to love and make sparks fly
No spark flew nary a nod
The spark plug was dead
And the greases dried
He skipped the cigarette
And left right away
Goodbye, I said: I love a man with staying power.
(*A comedy of Errors*)
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 6th March 2013 7:21pm
Donation to Charity of Choice
No tears for her leaving
no gifts of bouquet of sorrow
impede not with tearful pleas
do not hold back with dirges
no putrefaction of the flesh
the forests that seem to burn
with the blazes of a setting sun
the hues of blooms at dawn
let them be her memories of joy
no thoughts on sod atop her
no sad reading of death pain
the larks that sing at waking
the swallows that flit in the sky
the slow drone of the dragonfly
the flirtatious flutter of the butterfly
let beauty of the last memories
be her bed of ignorance
let them all be her companion
as she nestles down to die
to close her eyes for ever more
and enter her own elysian fields
she says goodbye as she said hello
Written by Grace (Idryad)
Published 17th March 2014 9:03am
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